From: dgkilday57
Message: 70926
Date: 2013-02-12
>The root-form *wl.kWo- is peculiar to begin with; one would expect a zero-grade *ulkWo-, apparently used in Celtic (Ulcagnus from Q-Celtic, Ulpius from P-Celtic). I cannot explain the discrepancy among *ulkWo-, *wl.kWo-, and *lukWo-, but it appears irrelevant to the Germanic labialization problem which I am currently addressing, since we need only *wl.kWo- in Gmc. provided we can explain the labialization.
> What it's curious about *wlkWo- is you many divergent "daughter" words. Latin lupus, instead of expected *vulcus; Greek lykos, instead of *Falpos, *Flapos (perhaps related to etnonym Lapithai) and Germanic *wulfaz instead of *wulxWaz. For all these divergences there are particular explanations, Osco-Umbrian substratal influence in Latin with metathesis (*wlkWo->*lukWo-), as in Greek. Convergence with a *wlp- is also possible, cf. Latin vulpes, Lit. vilp-.
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